NASA announced on Friday at the Nasdaq Stock
Exchange that it is opening up the International Space Station (ISS) for
marketing, advertising, off-earth manufacturing and even tourism, for
beneficial activities.
Robin Gattens, NASA's Deputy Director, NASA said "We are enabling two commercial flights per year with private astronauts, it depends on the fact that they will be potentially a dozen or so many personal astronauts per year at the International Space Station."
Gattens also added some points , "Private astronauts from other
countries can fly through an American institution". This means that the
passengers of ISS do not have to pass
the United States passport . They need to book their training, their ride and
their 30-day stay through American Space Carriers.
Tourism and other ISS commercial efforts are part of the collective form of
just 30-page policy - thanks to the NASA's commercial LEO development plan -
which was released on Friday
Sierra Nevada Corp is a commercial interest that is actively testing its multi-mission space utility vehicle, Dream Chaser. This vessel is similar to NASA's retired space shuttle in which it can be sent by rocket to LEO, and can be landed on the airstrip after returning to Earth. However, it should be a more robust vehicle that is designed to be a temporary orbital science laboratory.
NASA astronaut Steve Lindsay, who is the Vice Chairman of the Space
Exploration System with more than 30 years of experience in flight testing, he said,
"I think the commercial-use policy is really important how open the market
is".
NASA Chief Financial Officer Jeff Davit said that the plan "will
enable NASA to focus resources on the moon by 2024 to bring the next man and
the first woman". This is not a profit-making venture for NASA, the costs we spend to
maintain the station and remaining cost spend to go further into space and go
to Mars. "
Cost per citizen:- The current pricing plan is
expensive. For sending cargo to ISS, only 3,000 dollars per kilogram will be
spent, life support and toilet facilities cost $ 11,250 per person per day.
The
cost of access to food, air, medical kit and onboard gym is $ 22,500 per person
per day.
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